LINQ request for forum

Question

I code this forum, and since I'm new to LINQ, I ran into this problem when a user got to the main page. I want the table to display a list of such forums:

Forum  --- Topics (count) --- Posts (count) --- LastPostUserId --- LastPostTime

I have the following SQL tables:

Forums:
ForumId (int32),
Title (string),
Description (string)

ForumThreads:
ThreadId (int32),
ForumId (int32),
UserId (guid),
Subject (string),
Views (int32),
CreateDate (DateTime)

ForumPosts:
PostId (int32),
ThreadId (int32),
UserId (guid),
Post (string),
CreateDate (datetime)

Thanks...

Answer 1

To display the username if you are using membership and you do not want to include aspnet_Users in your dbml:

...
LastPostUserId = posts.OrderByDescending(p=>p.PostId).Take(1).Select(p=> Membership.GetUser(p.UserId))
...

Another change to make your hosted sample a little better is to add orderbydescending in the posts variable: Then you can discard 4 times duplicate OrderByDescending from the select clause:

from forum in Forums
let posts = ForumPosts.Where(p => p.ForumThreads.ForumId.Equals(forum.ForumId)).OrderByDescending(p=>p.PostId)
select new
{
    Forum = forum.Title,
    Description = forum.Description,
    Topics = forum.ForumThreads.Count(),
    Posts = posts.Count(),
    LastPostId = posts.Take(1).Select(p=>p.PostId),
    LastPostThreadId = posts.Take(1).Select(p=>p.ThreadId),
    LastPostUserId = posts.Take(1).Select(p=>p.UserId),
    LastPostTime = posts.Take(1).Select(p=>p.CreateDate)
}

Or even a cleaner:

from forum in Forums
let posts = ForumPosts.Where(p => p.ForumThreads.ForumId.Equals(forum.ForumId))
let lastPost = posts.OrderByDescending(p=>p.PostId).Take(1)
select new
{
    Forum = forum.Title,
    Description = forum.Description,
    Topics = forum.ForumThreads.Count(),
    Posts = posts.Count(),
    LastPostId = lastPost.PostId,
    LastPostThreadId = lastPost.ThreadId,
    LastPostUserId = lastPost.UserId,
    LastPostUserName = Membership.GetUser(lastPost.UserId),
    LastPostTime = lastPost.CreateDate
}

, tho, , , Take (1) null.

Answer 2

from forum in forums
from posts in db.ForumPosts.Where(p => p.Thread.ForumId.Equals(forum.ForumId))
select new
{
Forum = forum.Title, 
Topics = forum.ForumThreads.Count(),
Posts = posts.Count(),
LastPostBy = posts.OrderByDescending(p => p.CreateDate).FirstOrDefault(p => p.UserId),
LastPostTime= posts.Max(p => p.CreateDate))
}

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Answer 3

This is almost a trick (although it spawns some awful SQL ;-) ...)

from forum in Forums
let posts = ForumPosts.Where(p => p.ForumThreads.ForumId.Equals(forum.ForumId))
select new
{
    Forum = forum.Title,
    Description = forum.Description,
    Topics = forum.ForumThreads.Count(),
    Posts = posts.Count(),
    LastPostId = posts.OrderByDescending(p=>p.PostId).Take(1).Select(p=>p.PostId),
    LastPostThreadId = posts.OrderByDescending(p=>p.PostId).Take(1).Select(p=>p.ThreadId),
    LastPostUserId = posts.OrderByDescending(p=>p.PostId).Take(1).Select(p=>p.UserId),
    LastPostTime = posts.OrderByDescending(p=>p.PostId).Take(1).Select(p=>p.CreateDate)
}

Last: I have a relationship from the SQL table "ForumPosts" to "Aspnet_Users" and I would like to display the Aspnet_Users.UserName column as LastPostUserName ... how can this be done? And how would you optimize the whole query?